This presentation, delivered by Dede Rohadi, examines community based commercial forestry in Indonesia. Constraints as well as options for improving viability are considered.

1. Overcoming Constraints to Community
Based Commercial Forestry (CBCF)
Dede Rohadi
FORDA’s Seconded Scientist to CIFOR

2. Community Based Commercial
Forestry (CBCF):
• Exist in different types all over
the world
• In Indonesia, it is developed on
state, community and private
lands:
o Hutan Rakyat (Farm Forest)
o Hutan Adat (Customary Forest)
o Hutan Kemasyarakatan (Community
Forest); Hutan Tanaman Rakyat
(Community Plantation Forest); Hutan
Desa (Village Forest)
• Potential roles:
o Livelihood options
o Source of timber supply
o Environment improvement

3. Challenges on improving
performance of CBCF:
• Limited market
access/information
(infra structure, relative demand)
• Tree growers are not convinced to
apply best practices in timber
plantation management
(lack of knowledge and skill, price takers,
market respond)
• Weak bargaining power on timber
marketing
(limited capital, regulatory constraints)

4. KEY MESSAGES

5. Timber is additional to household income
(e.g. Timber sales share about 15% of the total household income in
Gunungkidul, Indonesia).
Perception
of farmers
tree
growers
on timber
plantations

6. Timber plantation is important in farmer land use system
Farmers allocate around 10% of their private land for woodlots (kitren), and
also plant timber on other land use types (tegalan and home garden)

7. Farmer’s practices in timber
plantations business:
 Selling timber
individually.
 Tebang butuh.
 Produce low quality of
timbers (small diameter
logs, knots, defects).
 Women involved in the
financial aspects of
timber production and
harvesting.
 Constraints by harvest
permits and timber trade
regulations.

8. No. Timber species Grade Diameter
(cm)
Price
(Rp 1,000/m3)
1 Teak (Tectona grandis)
– Slow growth
A1 (DL)
A1 (UP)
A2 (UD)
A3 (UGD)
A4
A5
< 13
16-19
22-28
 30
 44
 54
500 – 700
1,000 – 1,400
2,000 – 2,400
3,000 – 3,500
> 4,000
> 5,000
2 Sengon (Paraserianthes
falcataria) – Fast
growth
Length 1.3 m:
10-14
15-19
 20
 25
395 – 470
495 – 570
695 – 720
795 – 875
Length 2.6 m:
25-29
30-29
40-49
 50
800 – 916
925 – 1,100
1,125 – 1,140
1,125 – 1,150
Timber price significantly differs according to their
qualities
Market
aspects

9. Marketing chain varies significantly across sites/locations (e.g.
timber growers in Java has much more options to sell their timber
along the marketing chains).

10. Options for improving profits:
• Improve farmer’s market
orientation

11. Options for improving profits:
• Strengthen collective
marketing

12. Options for improving profits:
• Eliminate regulations
barriers